Lightly coat 24 to 30, 2 1/2-inch muffin cups with nonstick cooking spray; set aside. In a large mixing bowl, stir together the cake mix, pie filling and 3 eggs until moistened.

Remove 1 cup of the batter and set aside. Divide remaining batter among prepared muffin cups filling each about half full.

In a medium bowl, whisk together sour cream, 1 egg, sugar, flour and vanilla until smooth. Spoon small mounds of reserved batter over sour cream mixture in each cup (batter will not cover sour cream layer).

Bake for 25 minutes or until tops spring back when lightly touched.

Remove and cool in pans on wire racks for 15 minutes. Loosen edges and remove from pans. Cool completely. Chill within 2 hours.

I chose to make mine in the cupcake liners, and I will tell you that they do fall apart, but it's because once you remove that liner you get that moist chocolate cake with the strawberry filling and the sour cream mixture. It is SO good.

Perfect for Valentine's Day. Chocolate AND Strawberries.

Lucky Leaf has put together an assortment of printables to make your day even more special.

It's the perfect way to get the kids involved too, just a few ingredients, some adult supervision, and a delicious home baked goodie for their friends or mom or dad.

GIVEAWAY:

One lucky reader will win a Lucky Leaf baking prize pack that includes: a can of Lucky Leaf pie filling, a recipe card, fun and festive muffin cups and a bakery bag so you can bake it forward to someone you cherish.

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-- Open to all US residents only. Please make sure that you leave an email on the comment, so that I can contact you if you are drawn as the winner.
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-- Let me know if you plan on baking for Valentine's Day and what you are making :)
-- Winner will be drawn through Random.org, on Wednesday 13th, 2013.

Good Luck!!

Lucky Leaf provided me with a baking kit for this review. All opinions are expressly mine.

26 comments:

Oh my goodness, this recipe sounds fabulous! I don't think we have Lucky Leaf products here so I'll have to see if there is another strawberry pie filling. I don't know that I've ever seen any. I love strawberries.

I'm baking, a lemon cream pie with raspberries. The only baking is the cookie crumb crust, but I do use Lucky Leaf's lemon pie filling, which I mix with cream cheese and whipped cream. You pour the mixture over fresh raspberries that are layered on the butter of the cooked, cooled crumb crust. It's very pretty when you cut slices.

I actually don't do any baking for Valentines Day, oddly enough! My kids and I do milk/white chocolate dipped strawberries and pretzels with red sprinkles. Always, every year! I've been wanting to try to make a crock pot cheesecake so Valentines might just be the day! angboz00@yahoo.com

Because of my work schedules, I don't see myself doing any baking this year. I usually do heart-shaped and heart-healthy foods. This year, I'm thinking of splurging and making caramel apple pancakes though...

I am super excited to try this recipe! I have 2 girls and they LOVE to help with the baking...especially cupcakes :-) This year, I was planning to whip up some red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. I might just have to change that to this recipe instead! The girls and I will deliver them to my grandmother and a girlfriend of mine who has little ones as well.

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